Water From Your Eyes – It's a Beautiful Place

Get to my age and music becomes a mark of time slipping away. Water From Your Eyes took the red eye from my adolescence into adulthood, slipping in with their early career hit Adeleine a gem from high school. Barley was a walk from my dorm to class, and Playing Classics can now soundtrack my trek to work. Checking in every few years has felt like watching a friend grow in and out of phases, and their trajectory has never felt as content and mature as on It's a Beautiful Place. While 2023's Everyone's Crushed will likely go down as their definitive record, they've found time to strip down their sound and flex their newfound writing chops.

They've certainly chosen an interesting spotlight to cast them in, with It's a Beautiful Place barely reaching 30 minutes; it gains context when hearing the average guitar line could've landed on Miles Davis' Live-Evil. While the material is scarce, the quality is a renewable resource on par with a nuclear fusion plant. Choruses hum, drumlines bounce, and there's always enough subversion for leftovers. Bringing back the friend growing up analogy, it's refreshing to have one finally find their place and stick around a while.

Listen to: Playing Classic, Nights in Armor, Born 2